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With themes of anger management, bullying, and apologizing, this The Juice Box Bully picture book by Bob Sornson is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. Your students will love it too!
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- Read a summary of The Juice Box Bully.
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THE JUICE BOX BULLY SUMMARY
The Juice Box Bully is about a new student Pete who joins his new classroom and isn’t kind to his classmates. He uses harsh words when he talks to his classmates and he steals a ball from kids who are using it during recess. When the other students tell him about the promise they made as a class to be kind and stand up for others he says that their rules are dumb and he doesn’t care.
One day in the lunchroom Pete squirts Ruby with juice and it gets all over her shirt. Ruby gets very upset and tells Pete that she is going to tell everyone how mean he is and make sure he doesn’t have any friends. Ralph stands up for Pete and reminds Ruby that they don’t treat people like that in their class. Pete has never had anyone stand up for him before and he realizes that it is better to be nice and follow the promise they made as a class. Ruby and Pete apologize to each other and move forward.
THE JUICE BOX BULLY LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based The Juice Box Bully reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making predictions
- analyzing character
- author’s purpose
- making connections
- identifying theme | message | moral
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- bullying
- apologizing
- anger management
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- pronouns
- quotation marks
- synonyms
THE JUICE BOX BULLY ACTIVITIES
You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
What are the reading levels for The Juice Box Bully?
- Lexile® Measure: 550-575
- Guided Reading Level: M
- DRA Level: 28
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3-3.2
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Bob Sornson. It was illustrated by Maria Dismondy.
What genre is The Juice Box Bully?
It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.
How many pages are in the book?
The story is 32 pages long.
